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joaocandre

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Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

Is there a daemon/package that gathers relevant data about a running server and prsents them through a web interface?

Chrishas

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

Nagios or Ganglia? Both are in the AUR.

joaocandre

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

That's what I was looking for. It seems both of them require a Web server running, I guess that's to be expected. I have none set up because I don't really need it, but I guess I will give it a shot.

karol

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

What kind of stats? What does that server do?

lucke

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

monitorix shows some stats and has an inbuilt http server.

joaocandre

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

@karol Home NAS/Media server, running sshd, transmission, minidlna and btsync.

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firecat53

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

If you're open to using Docker, I've got a Dockerfile to build the Open Monitoring Distribution (basically Nagios with the more user-friendly Check_mk plugin installed). I've got that running on a VPS to monitor my home server +  a couple other misc services. Works great and is a bit easier to configure than plain old Nagios.

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Slithery

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

This is only relevant if you have a Linode VPS (highly recommended BTW), but I use their Longview monitoring service on my home Arch machines as well as the Arch VPS I have hosted with them.

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Inxsible

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

does your server board have IPMI ?? If so, all you need to do is assign a static IP to the IPMI lan and use a browser.

Although I am not quite clear if you want server control or you want to monitor the processes that are running on it. If the latter, you can simply ssh into it and use htop or the like...

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karol

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

Although I am not quite clear if you want server control or you want to monitor the processes that are running on it. If the latter, you can simply ssh into it and use htop or the like...

Or https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

joaocandre

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

Thanks for the suggestions. I tinkered a bit with Nagios, I'd say both Nagios and Ganglia are way overkill for what I was looking for, Monitorix looks promisisng and Glances is quite simple and minimalistic.

karol

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Re: Headless server Monitoring/Overview/Stats

There's a wiki article on monitorix, in case you want to give it a go.